Building A Government Of Laws: Adams And Jefferson 1776–1779, 2014 University of Baltimore School of Law
Building A Government Of Laws: Adams And Jefferson 1776–1779, James Maxeiner
All Faculty Scholarship
America’s rule of law is not working well because many American lawyers confound their rule of law with common law and with common law methods. They overlook the contribution of good legislation to good government. They fixate on judges, judge-made law and procedure. America’s founders, in particular, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, did not. They were not entranced by common law and by common law methods. This chapter shows how in the first few years of American independence, Adams popularized the term “government of laws” and how Jefferson drafted statutes for a government of laws. Neither of them assigned common …
The Nacirema Revisited, 2014 Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
The Nacirema Revisited, Jeffrey D. Kahn
SMU Law Review
In 1956, anthropologist Horace Miner published the article for which he is best known, "Body Ritual among the Nacirema." This short but groundbreaking essay described personal rituals practiced by a fascinating but poorly understood people. Inspired by Miner's work and based on close-quarters field research, this essay revisits the strange world of the Nacirema. Two of the more "legal" features of their society are explored: (1) what might be termed the higher-order constitutional design of their society, and (2) the mechanisms of day-to-day maintenance of their social order.
Mayo, Myriad, And The Future Of Innovation In Molecular Diagnostics And Personalized Medicine, 2014 University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law
Mayo, Myriad, And The Future Of Innovation In Molecular Diagnostics And Personalized Medicine, Christopher M. Holman
Faculty Works
Contrary to popular perception, the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., finding certain patent claims reciting isolated genomic DNA molecules patent ineligible is likely to have a relatively minor impact on the patenting of diagnostics and personalized medicine. Method claims generally play a much more important role than isolated DNA claims in the patenting of innovations in this important technological sector, and the Court’s earlier decision in Mayo v. Prometheus Labs that held claims directed towards non-genetic methods of personalized medicine to be patent ineligible will likely prove significantly more problematic in this …
Preventive Justice And The Presumption Of Innocence, 2014 University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Preventive Justice And The Presumption Of Innocence, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
All Faculty Scholarship
When the state aims to prevent responsible and dangerous actors from harming its citizens, it must choose between criminal law and other preventive techniques. The state, however, appears to be caught in a Catch-22: using the criminal law raises concerns about whether early inchoate conduct is properly the target of punishment, whereas using the civil law raises concerns that the state is circumventing the procedural protections available to criminal defendants. Andrew Ashworth has levied the most serious charge against civil preventive regimes, arguing that they evade the presumption of innocence.
After sketching out a substantive justification for a civil, preventive …
Civil Consequences Of Corruption In International Commercial Contracts, 2014 American University Washington College of Law
Civil Consequences Of Corruption In International Commercial Contracts, Padideh Ala'i
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The United States legal system seeks to prevent and prohibit bribery and corruption through a myriad of laws, regulations and policies. Anti-corruption jurisprudence is more developed in the context of public sector contracts where the United States criminalizes bribery of public officials through 18 U.S.C. §201 (Bribery of Public Officials and Witnesses). In addition, the United States was the first country to criminalize bribery of foreign government officials in 1977 with the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The FCPA has since been amended to comply with the adoption of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign …
Legal Reform: China's Law-Stability Paradox, 2014 Columbia Law School
Legal Reform: China's Law-Stability Paradox, Benjamin L. Liebman
Faculty Scholarship
In the 1980s and 1990s, China devoted extensive resources to constructing a legal system, in part in the belief that legal institutions would enhance both stability and regime legitimacy. Why, then, did China’s leadership retreat from using law when faced with perceived increases in protests, citizen complaints, and social discontent in the 2000s? This law-stability paradox suggests that party-state leaders do not trust legal institutions to play primary roles in addressing many of the most complex issues resulting from China’s rapid social transformation. This signi½es a retreat not only from legal reform, but also from the rule-based model of authoritarian …
Lost Classics Of Intellectual Property Law, 2014 University of PIttsburgh School of Law
Lost Classics Of Intellectual Property Law, Michael J. Madison
Articles
Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” American legal scholarship often suffers from a related sin of omission: failing to acknowledge its intellectual debts. This short piece attempts to cure one possible source of the problem, in one discipline: inadequate information about what’s worth reading among older writing. I list “lost classics” of American scholarship in intellectual property law. These are not truly “lost,” and what counts as “classic” is often in the eye of the beholder (or reader). But these works may usefully be found again, and intellectual property law scholarship would be …
Book Review: Lawless Capitalism: The Subprime Crisis And The Case For An Economic Rule Of Law, 2014 University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law
Book Review: Lawless Capitalism: The Subprime Crisis And The Case For An Economic Rule Of Law, William K. Black
Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Cross-Border Targeted Killings: "Lawful But Awful"?, 2014 Georgetown University Law Center
Cross-Border Targeted Killings: "Lawful But Awful"?, Rosa Brooks
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Since September 11, the United States has waged two very open wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These two wars have killed nearly 7,000 U.S. military personnel and left some 50,000 American troops wounded; they have also left an unknown number of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers and civilians dead or wounded. But alongside these two costly and visible wars, the United States has also been waging what amounts to a third war.
This third war is a secret war, waged mostly by drone strikes, though it has also involved a smaller number of special operations raids. The author calls this third …
Law, Objectives Of Government And Regimes Of Truth: Foucault’S Understanding Of Law And The Transformation Of The Law Of The Eu Internal Market, 2013 Faculty of law, University of Lund
Law, Objectives Of Government And Regimes Of Truth: Foucault’S Understanding Of Law And The Transformation Of The Law Of The Eu Internal Market, Leila Brännström
Leila Brännström
Drawing on Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics, this article aims, firstly, to consolidate our understanding of Foucault’s engagement with law by fleshing out his approach to law and by clarifying that he distinguishes between different kinds of law on the basis of the objectives that law serves and the regime of truth that it embodies. Secondly, using this understanding, the article proceeds to illustrate how the objectives and the regime of truth of the EU internal market law have been displaced in the last few decades. It is argued that this body of law has increasingly come …
The Elaborate Paper Tiger: Environmental Enforcement And The Rule Of Law In China, 2013 Florida State University College of Law
The Elaborate Paper Tiger: Environmental Enforcement And The Rule Of Law In China, Erin Ryan
Erin Ryan
The Mask Of Virtue: Theories Of Aretaic Legislation In A Public Choice Perspective, 2013 Chapman University School of Law
The Mask Of Virtue: Theories Of Aretaic Legislation In A Public Choice Perspective, Donald J. Kochan
Donald J. Kochan
Public Lands And The Federal Government’S Compact-Based “Duty To Dispose”: A Case Study Of Utah’S H.B. 148 – The Transfer Of Public Lands Act, 2013 Chapman University School of Law
Public Lands And The Federal Government’S Compact-Based “Duty To Dispose”: A Case Study Of Utah’S H.B. 148 – The Transfer Of Public Lands Act, Donald J. Kochan
Donald J. Kochan
Recent legislation passed in March 2012 in the State of Utah — the “Transfer of Public Lands Act and Related Study,” (“TPLA”) also commonly referred to as House Bill 148 (“H.B. 148”) — has demanded that the federal government, by December 31, 2014, “extinguish title” to certain public lands that the federal government currently holds (totaling an estimated more than 20 million acres). It also calls for the transfer of such acreage to the State and establishes procedures for the development of a management regime for this increased state portfolio of land holdings resulting from the transfer. The State of …
Transparency In International Economic Relations And The Role Of The Wto, 2013 American University Washington College of Law
Transparency In International Economic Relations And The Role Of The Wto, Padideh Ala'i , Matthew D'Orsi
Padideh Ala'i
Civil Consequences Of Corruption In International Commercial Contracts, 2013 Selected Works
Civil Consequences Of Corruption In International Commercial Contracts, Padideh Ala'i
Padideh Ala'i
Social Engineering Through Shari’A: Islamic Law And State-Directed Da’Wa In Contemporary Aceh, 2013 Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Social Engineering Through Shari’A: Islamic Law And State-Directed Da’Wa In Contemporary Aceh, R. Michael Feener
Indonesia Law Review
This study of the contemporary Islamic legal system in Aceh, Indonesia argues for new attention to be paid to the ways in which contemporary Muslim agendas for the implementation of Islamic law can be read as projects for future oriented social transformation—rather than as a series of reactive measures to perceived ‘crises of modernity’ and/or the political machinations of rival elites in contesting control of state power. In doing so it highlights the ways in which the ideals of, and institutional formations developed by, proponents of Islamic law are configured in relation to a broad range of non-Muslim modernist projects, …
The Place Of The Judiciary In The Constitutional Culture Of New Zealand, 2013 High Court of New Zealand, Auckland
The Place Of The Judiciary In The Constitutional Culture Of New Zealand, Matthew S. R. Palmer Qc
The Hon Justice Matthew Palmer
New Zealand constitutional culture is dominated by the political branches of government: representative democracy and parliamentary sovereignty are perhaps the two most fundamental New Zealand constitutional norms. The judiciary has historically occupied an inferior, residual role with a relatively inaudible voice in constitutional dialogue. Against this context the paper explores the position of the judiciary in contemporary New Zealand constitutional culture. It concludes that it would take a striking judicial decision, consistent with public opinion, against government action, to invigorate popular support for the judicial branch of government. The normative prescription for the institutional health of the judicial branch is …
Symposium - The U.S.-Iranian Relationship And The Future Of International Order, 2013 Penn State Law
Symposium - The U.S.-Iranian Relationship And The Future Of International Order
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs
No abstract provided.
2012-13 Jlia Masthead, 2013 Penn State Law
2012-13 Jlia Masthead
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs
No abstract provided.
Protecting Shareholders From Themselves: How The United Kingdom’S 2011 Takeover Code Amendments Hit Their Mark, 2013 Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University
Protecting Shareholders From Themselves: How The United Kingdom’S 2011 Takeover Code Amendments Hit Their Mark, Matthew Peetz
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs
Kraft’s takeover of Cadbury in 2011 caused considerable uproar in the United Kingdom. The political outcry caused significant amendments to the United Kingdom’s regulatory framework over mergers and acquisitions, the so-called, Takeover Code. These changes to the Takeover Code were made to help relieve pressure on target companies during takeover situations, and to correct the imbalance of power in favor of bidding companies that the political community had perceived during the Kraft-Cadbury takeover. After the changes were made, but before they were implemented, the business community expressed concern that these added regulations would be detrimental to the M&A market as …